Wondering where your favorite menu and toolbar commands are located in Office 2010?  Topics include: Use an interactive guide to find commands Get a printable list of Office 2010 commands and buttons:  Office 2010 menu to ribbon reference workbooksInstall guides to multiple computers Check it out:  http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/learn-where-menu-and-toolbar-commands-are-in-office-2010-and-related-products-HA101794130.aspx

Free CLO Webinar: Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010 - 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET Organizations today must deal with a new business and economic climate that continues to change with unprecedented speed. Concurrently, effectively managing today’s organization is more demanding than ever due to a multigeneration workforce and increasing adoption of social media tools and mobile technologies. In this fast-moving presentation,Amar Dhaliwal, Saba, Senior Vice President, Product Operations Group will discuss the trends influencing the engagement and impact of your people, the key aspects of today’s business environment, and the central roles of creativity and innovation in meeting the challenges faced by institutions of all types and sizes.

ASTD estimates that U.S. organizations spent $125.88 billion on employee learning and development in 2009. This amount reflects direct learning expenditures such as the learning function's staff salaries, administrative learning costs, and non-salary delivery costs (including outsourced activities). Nearly two-thirds of the U.S. total ($78.6 billion) was spent on the internal learning function, such as staff salaries and internal development costs. The remainder ($47.3 billion) was allocated to external services such as workshops, vendors and external events. These types of informative statistics appear in ASTD's annual State of the Industry Report.Check it out:  http://www.astd.org/content/research/stateOfIndustry.htm

Do you store company or personal data on USB flash drives?  If so, consider using encryption software to keep your data safe.  TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data is automatically encrypted or decrypted right before it is loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys.Check it out:  http://www.truecrypt.org/

The best productivity bloggers send tips to Productive Magazine.  You can download the magazine as a PDF or get each issue downloaded to your iPAD.  Of course, you can also view the magazine online.This month's issue features an article by Michael Hyatt - "How to shave 10 hours off your work week".  A must read!Check it out:  http://www.productivefirm.com/magazine/

Date: Tuesday, January 11th, 2011, Time: 9 AM PST/ 12 PM ESTModerator: James Hilliard, President, Hilly ProductionsSpeaker: Roger Courville, Principal, 1080 GroupOnline training is a completely different ballgame than in-person training. Sure, you don't have to fret about what to wear or if you're trainees are going to smell the onions you ate at lunch, but you do have to worry about how to engage, interact, connect with and understand your audience - all while you can't even see them!  Join Roger Courville, online presentation expert and author of The Virtual Presenter's Handbook, for a webinar on how to plan, design and present like an online training pro. Attend this live webinar to discover how to:Avoid the 7 most common online presentation mistakesDesign dynamic training presentations (no art degree required!)Present - and train - like a pro Register:  http://learn.gototraining.com/forms/011111-NA-G2T-WBR-L?ID=701000000005Wed

I created my first "SCREENR" tutorial last week about adding an interactive PDF to an Articulate Presenter course via web objects.  The SCREENR program is a web-based recorder with no software to download.  It's simple and works great.  They make it easy to share too with mp4 download capabilities and youtube upload abilities.Check it out:  http://screenr.com/RYq

Like it or not, your end users are probably using their computers and mobile devices to access social networking applications like Facebook and Twitter. While valuable tools for networking and keeping in touch, social networking sites can also expose your users to online malware. Download this Internet.com eBook for advice on keeping your users safe, help developing a social networking policy, and tips on how to make the most of social networking tools.Check it out:  http://www.internet.com/Internetcom/Door/41203/Internet.com-Sign-up-p1-v2?44434

Love the rollover Flash widget for Articulate Presenter from eLearning Enhanced.  Works like a charm and is a bargain at $25.Create rollover "hotspots" on your Articulate Presenter slides with this Flash widget. When a learner's mouse hovers over a hotspot, this widget will play an audio file, display a text tooltip, or both! Design your slide as usual in Powerpoint/Articulate Presenter, insert "hotspotRollover.swf" onto each slide on which you want to have rollover audio/text tooltip hotspots, then publish. No Flash experience needed. Define as many hotspots on each slide as you want. Just edit the "hotspots.xml" file in any text editor after you publish your course to define your tooltip text, audio file, size, and position of each hotspot.  Create multiple hotspots per slide and have multiple slides with hotspots in a single presentation.Make sure you read the "Read Me' file and/or watch the demonstration movies before you use the widget.Check it out:  http://elearningenhanced.com/products/presenter

Houston ASTD Jan Event:  In 2014 Generation Y will Grow from 25% of the current Workforce Worldwide to 47%.  Will You and Your Organization Be Ready?  As their numbers almost double in the next five years, what will Generation Y's effect on the WorkPlace be? Find out more in this fascinating 1/2 day Professional Development event!Nicole Lipkin, PsyD, MBA President Equilibria Coaching and Consulting Services Wednesday, January 12,2011 8:00 AM to Wednesday, January 12,2011 11:30 AM